Verse 7.4
भूमिरापोऽनलो वायुः खं मनो बुद्धिरेव च ।
अहङ्कार इतीयं मे भिन्ना प्रकृतिरष्टधा ॥
Transliteration
bhūmirāpo'nalo vāyuḥ khaṃ mano buddhireva ca |
ahaṅkāra itīyaṃ me bhinnā prakṛtiraṣṭadhā ||
By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · @indic-transliteration/sanscript 1.3.3
Translation
Earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, intellect and egoism thus is My Nature divided eightfold.
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Earth, water, fire, air, space, mind, understanding and the sense of I: this is my nature, divided eightfold.
By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08 · +1 more
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By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08
Explanation
Krishna begins describing his two natures. The first is his nature (prakṛti) divided eightfold: earth, water, fire, air and space, the five elements, together with mind, understanding (buddhi) and ahaṅkāra, the sense of I. This list draws on the language of Sankhya, which analyses the world into such principles. Including the mind and the ego among material elements is important: what we usually call our inner life is also part of the changing world. All of it, Krishna says, belongs to him.
By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08